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[meta] They should add something else to avoid having this question everytime there is a black bar at the top. It happened to me, it happened to many others and
by coppolaemilio 9y ago
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They should add something else to avoid having this question everytime there is a black bar at the top. It happened to me, it happened to many others and now to Grangar. Is there a repo where to contribute to HN's code? Maybe an admin?
- zitterbewegung 9y agoThey should have hover over text or a sticky post on the top.
- accountyaccount 9y agoJust sticky the post inside of the black bar like so http://imgur.com/a/Mceqq http://imgur.com/a/Mceqq
- milesokeefe 9y agoOr even just an alt tag.
- nailer 9y agoNow what alt tags are for and won't work on mobile.
- candu 9y ago+1. title and aria-label attributes would go a long way here.
- steven777400 9y agoI even went into the view-source figuring there would at least be an html comment and suggestive css class. I guess in retrospect now it's obvious what the bar is for but I agree a hover or similar would be nice.
- spookyuser 9y agoExactly, if people don't know what it's for then what's the point of doing it in the first place.
- brador 9y agoA tooltip on hover on the header might help.
- Cephlin 9y agoI would probably at least have added an id tag to the div with something like "rip-chuck". That was the first thing I checked until I asked a colleague.
- kzisme 9y agoPeople could also search about it - I've seen a handful of this question today already - without even looking people are posting and asking (this isn't the first time the bar has been there either lol)
- Isamu 9y agoI'm not trying to be snippy, but the answer is generally on the front page. Or you could type "died" into the search box and choose most recent. Personally I'm glad they resist efforts to "improve" the site. I'm tired of the slippery slope of fast and information-dense sites becoming slow and information-sparse. Just my opinion, don't shoot me.
- andai 9y agoA thin black bar that occasionally appears with no context is pretty information-sparse imo.
- hashkb 9y agoLook at every other venue for black bars... sports, military, flags at half mast... they never have a person's name on them. That just isn't how it's done.
- Grangar 9y agoJust making it clickable to link to the relevant post would be enough IMO. I never knew the black bar principle myself. Assuming knowledge is not the way to go.
- samdg 9y ago> I'm not trying to be snippy, but the answer is generally on the front page. Or you could type "died" into the search box and choose most recent. But that presupposes you know this black bar indicates someone's death, which is not the case of the person asking the question in the first place.
- rabboRubble 9y agoOr you could type "black bar" and find the answer? I had no idea seeing this black bar meant a death. I thought it meant a rendering error and gave a half second to reload the page, say hunh it's still there, and go on to something else. I came away with the impression somebody got design-y and changed things up for no real reason. Edit: and for all the talk on this page about the bar, very little is being said about the man. Here's his Wikipedia page for anybody interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_P._Thacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_P._Thacker